The Georgia House of Representatives has passed a bill that calls for land education officials to implement a study program based effectually financial literacy for high schoolers — and cryptocurrency is on the curriculum listing.

The pecker passed the lower chamber of Georgia on March eight by a vote of 169-2. The pecker was sponsored by six Republican candidates and has been sent to the Senate for further deliberation. The plan outlines 16 areas of financial literacy to exist studied by students in the tenth or eleventh grade.

The bill's text states:

"The State Board of Didactics shall prescribe a plan of study in personal financial literacy to be completed past students during loftier schoolhouse."

Cryptocurrency has found itself on the list, along with more traditional subjects such every bit balancing a checkbook, investing, money direction, loan applications, and tax assessments.

However, given crypto'southward lowly position at number xvi out of xvi subjects, it may not exist the most comprehensive overview. But at least it'southward a start.

Georgia's beak is not the first time cryptocurrency has been included in a high school curriculum. Back in 2019, the French education ministry building implemented a Bitcoin and cryptocurrency module to its high school curriculum.

The module was designed to give students a bones knowledge of cryptocurrency in relation to the traditional financial earth. The module pushed students to answer questions such as "Is Bitcoin the currency of the hereafter?", "Can Bitcoin supplant the Euro?" and "Do y'all have trust in your currency?".

And showing it's never too early to larn nigh crypto, on International Women's Day a iii-twelvemonth-old Bitcoin educator spoke at the online Women of the Future crypto and blockchain briefing. The young educator, Lily Knight, previously went semi-viral in the crypto earth after releasing a video about Bitcoin's limited supply using Skittles processed for visual representation.